PSY 3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Verbal Behavior, Reinforcement
12 Apr 2016
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Efects do not impact directly on the physical world o our other behaviours do (e. g. picking up a mug, impact directly on the world the mug: words don"t do this. Efect mediated through other people o if you say pick up my mug other people can pick it up, and act on your words and impact the world by listening to your words. Coningency-specifying simuli (skinner, 1969) o o o o o rules: verbal behaviour arranged in a speciic way; describes a coningency describes the abcs of behaviour (antecedent, behaviour, consequence) A: when to do something (sd / sdelta ) C: what will happen when you do it (the consequence) Rules are acquired in the same manner as are other behaviours: Reinforced for following rules: o o learn to follow rules (more likely to do it again) rules become sds for following rules in the future.
